Letter to ARUP and the University of Reading
I have just written to the ODPM personally to request a regulator for mobile phone companies in view of the fact that my letter has only gone to another time and money consuming exercise.
Below is a copy of the letter to be sent to this study.
Sandi
Here is the letter that makes the matching pair, which has been posted
Sandi
I want you to know what is going on with these mobile phone companies, the worst of which seem to be 02 and Airwave, but my complaint is about all of these companies.
I have asked an intermediary to pass on my request for a regulatory body for mobile phone companies, since self-regulation is very clearly not working.
I now realize that you have just put in place a time and money consuming study (ARUP and the University of Reading ) where a copy of my letter is to be sent.
I am therefore asking you myself to put in place a regulatory body immediately where phone companies, who are angering and frustrating decent citizens of the UK all over the country, can be policed.
Please show us, the electorate, something we have not seen from your government…….. care and concern for us and our human rights.
As a committee member, Advice Line co-ordinator and TETRA email co-ordinator for Mast Sanity, I am well aware of the mood of the people I speak to or email throughout every week.
I have chosen to ask this of you as an individual rather than under the Mast Sanity umbrella because I also enclose a letter I have written for the people of the UK to send to Government to let it know their thoughts and feeling.
I enclose a copy for your information.
This is the only way this government leaves open to us, and I believe strongly that the people have the right to address a government that was elected into power for the people and by the people.
I will not rest until the tide of misery brought by this mast invasion is turned.
I blame the Government as much as the phone companies for ignoring the rights and wishes of the people in this matter.
Yours sincerely
Mrs Sandi Lawrence
28th February 2005
I am a committee member of Mast Sanity as well as Advice Line co-ordinator.
I take calls from members of the public twice a week, most weeks, and stand in for others on occasions when they are unable to take phone calls.
I am also helping in a local campaign against what residents here call "the bullying tactics" of 02. This, because we are now on the fourth campaign since December 2003!
In December 2003, 02 applied for a mast to be erected at West Park, Aldwick, and residents objected because there is already a Hutchison 3G mast there which makes some people unwell. (They recover when they go on holiday, or out of the area for a week or two, thus indicating that this existing mast is a major cause)
Our district council refused this application and 02 appealed, so it went to the Bristol Inspectorate, where it was refused permission again.
In December 2004, 02 again put in a planning application for a 17m mast and this was again rejected by the district council on February 16th 2005.
The following day, council notices were put up to announce that 02 had entered into a joint planning application, received on February 8th 2005, with Hutchison (which has the existing mast on this site) for a 20.5m mast with 6 antennae, 3 for Hutchison and 3 for 02.
This is blatant bullying, in the eyes of the local residents, because 02 has been refused three times already on visual aspects i.e. the height, and the height increases with each application. There is no indication that they have investigated another possible site and locals are afraid that 02 will add TETRA, either lawfully or otherwise, as they did on the Feltham, Bognor BT mast last year.
We are aware that 02 still have the right to appeal on the planning application which was refused on the 16th February 2005 , if this latest application is again refused. So we could run into a 5th campaign!
Because residents have become exhausted with this continual onslaught, we complained to OFCOM and the DTI, who both denied responsibility. A phone call to the ODPM confirmed that there is nowhere for people to complain to about this aggressive, insensitive bullying by phone companies, who do not even bother to consult local residents.
I hear the same story from all over the UK on the Advice Line for Mast Sanity about all the phone companies. Also they are putting out literature to say mobiles and phone masts are safe! That is not strictly true, even by government standards, as reference to biological effects is mentioned in the Stewart report under 'Main Conclusions on the Possible Effects of Mobile Phone Technology on Human Health' at 1.18 and 1.19.
The suggestion in 1.18 that "there may be biological effects occurring at below these guidelines" is tantamount to saying there is an element of doubt.
While 1.19 goes on to say "We conclude therefore that it is not possible at present to say that exposure to RF radiation, even at levels below national guidelines, is totally without potential health effects".
Since phone companies and the Government quote Stewart at every twist and turn, why do they misquote it for their convenience in misinforming the public?
For these reasons would you please be kind enough to raise these issues in the meeting of 16th March 2005 and ask that phone companies should be make accountable for these tactics and this misinformation by way of a body which can regulate them properly, for it seems that they are not to be trusted to self-regulate!
The local campaign here has written to the district council requesting that the council asks the government to fine these phone companies for wasting councils' time and money on repeated application and appeals (which may further burden council tax payers!)
This point could also be raised if you would.
Ordinary, law abiding, people across the UK are becoming incensed by the behaviour of phone companies and angry with this government for allowing it to happen, and for manipulation the planning laws to aid and abet these companies.
It would not take much to gather a great pile of examples, but I have chosen to let the Government know our feelings in the enclosed letter to be sent to government departments by the people across the UK. I enclose it for your information.
Yours sincerely
Mrs Sandi Lawrence
Enc: The Voice of the People of the UK
http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/the_voice_of_the_people_of_the_uk.htm
Below is a copy of the letter to be sent to this study.
Sandi
Here is the letter that makes the matching pair, which has been posted
Sandi
I want you to know what is going on with these mobile phone companies, the worst of which seem to be 02 and Airwave, but my complaint is about all of these companies.
I have asked an intermediary to pass on my request for a regulatory body for mobile phone companies, since self-regulation is very clearly not working.
I now realize that you have just put in place a time and money consuming study (ARUP and the University of Reading ) where a copy of my letter is to be sent.
I am therefore asking you myself to put in place a regulatory body immediately where phone companies, who are angering and frustrating decent citizens of the UK all over the country, can be policed.
Please show us, the electorate, something we have not seen from your government…….. care and concern for us and our human rights.
As a committee member, Advice Line co-ordinator and TETRA email co-ordinator for Mast Sanity, I am well aware of the mood of the people I speak to or email throughout every week.
I have chosen to ask this of you as an individual rather than under the Mast Sanity umbrella because I also enclose a letter I have written for the people of the UK to send to Government to let it know their thoughts and feeling.
I enclose a copy for your information.
This is the only way this government leaves open to us, and I believe strongly that the people have the right to address a government that was elected into power for the people and by the people.
I will not rest until the tide of misery brought by this mast invasion is turned.
I blame the Government as much as the phone companies for ignoring the rights and wishes of the people in this matter.
Yours sincerely
Mrs Sandi Lawrence
28th February 2005
I am a committee member of Mast Sanity as well as Advice Line co-ordinator.
I take calls from members of the public twice a week, most weeks, and stand in for others on occasions when they are unable to take phone calls.
I am also helping in a local campaign against what residents here call "the bullying tactics" of 02. This, because we are now on the fourth campaign since December 2003!
In December 2003, 02 applied for a mast to be erected at West Park, Aldwick, and residents objected because there is already a Hutchison 3G mast there which makes some people unwell. (They recover when they go on holiday, or out of the area for a week or two, thus indicating that this existing mast is a major cause)
Our district council refused this application and 02 appealed, so it went to the Bristol Inspectorate, where it was refused permission again.
In December 2004, 02 again put in a planning application for a 17m mast and this was again rejected by the district council on February 16th 2005.
The following day, council notices were put up to announce that 02 had entered into a joint planning application, received on February 8th 2005, with Hutchison (which has the existing mast on this site) for a 20.5m mast with 6 antennae, 3 for Hutchison and 3 for 02.
This is blatant bullying, in the eyes of the local residents, because 02 has been refused three times already on visual aspects i.e. the height, and the height increases with each application. There is no indication that they have investigated another possible site and locals are afraid that 02 will add TETRA, either lawfully or otherwise, as they did on the Feltham, Bognor BT mast last year.
We are aware that 02 still have the right to appeal on the planning application which was refused on the 16th February 2005 , if this latest application is again refused. So we could run into a 5th campaign!
Because residents have become exhausted with this continual onslaught, we complained to OFCOM and the DTI, who both denied responsibility. A phone call to the ODPM confirmed that there is nowhere for people to complain to about this aggressive, insensitive bullying by phone companies, who do not even bother to consult local residents.
I hear the same story from all over the UK on the Advice Line for Mast Sanity about all the phone companies. Also they are putting out literature to say mobiles and phone masts are safe! That is not strictly true, even by government standards, as reference to biological effects is mentioned in the Stewart report under 'Main Conclusions on the Possible Effects of Mobile Phone Technology on Human Health' at 1.18 and 1.19.
The suggestion in 1.18 that "there may be biological effects occurring at below these guidelines" is tantamount to saying there is an element of doubt.
While 1.19 goes on to say "We conclude therefore that it is not possible at present to say that exposure to RF radiation, even at levels below national guidelines, is totally without potential health effects".
Since phone companies and the Government quote Stewart at every twist and turn, why do they misquote it for their convenience in misinforming the public?
For these reasons would you please be kind enough to raise these issues in the meeting of 16th March 2005 and ask that phone companies should be make accountable for these tactics and this misinformation by way of a body which can regulate them properly, for it seems that they are not to be trusted to self-regulate!
The local campaign here has written to the district council requesting that the council asks the government to fine these phone companies for wasting councils' time and money on repeated application and appeals (which may further burden council tax payers!)
This point could also be raised if you would.
Ordinary, law abiding, people across the UK are becoming incensed by the behaviour of phone companies and angry with this government for allowing it to happen, and for manipulation the planning laws to aid and abet these companies.
It would not take much to gather a great pile of examples, but I have chosen to let the Government know our feelings in the enclosed letter to be sent to government departments by the people across the UK. I enclose it for your information.
Yours sincerely
Mrs Sandi Lawrence
Enc: The Voice of the People of the UK
http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/the_voice_of_the_people_of_the_uk.htm
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